USING APPLE’S IPHONE 12 IN FRANCE IS SAFE, REGULATOR

Sun 01 October 2023: The software update released by Apple for its iPhone 12 smartphones would enable the devices to comply with France’s radiation exposure limits, the French National Frequency Agency (ANFR) said on Friday. The accredited laboratory commissioned by the agency has confirmed that the software update can limit the Specific Absorption Rate (SAR) […]

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OUTLAWED KURDISH GROUP PKK CLAIMS RESPONSIBILITY FOR ANKARA ATTACK

Sun 01 October 2023: The outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), listed as a terror group by Turkey and its Western allies, claimed responsibility for a suicide bombing in the Turkish capital of Ankara on Sunday that injured two people, Agence France-Presse reported. Two attackers detonated a bomb in front of Turkish government buildings in Ankara on Sunday, […]

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FIRST UN MISSION IN 30 YEARS ARRIVES IN KARABAKH: AZERBAIJAN

Sun 01 October 2023: A United Nations mission arrived Sunday in Nagorno-Karabakh, the first in three decades, Azerbaijan said after almost the entire ethnic-Armenian population fled since Azerbaijan recaptured the breakaway enclave. An Azerbaijani presidency spokesman told AFP that a “UN mission arrived in Karabakh on Sunday morning” — mainly to assess humanitarian needs, the first time in […]

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21 NEW CARDINALS APPOINTED BY POPE FRANCIS, EMBRACING DIVERSITY AND REFORM

Sun 01 October 2023: At a ceremony in St. Peter’s Square in the Vatican on Saturday, Pope Francis named 21 new cardinals, personally conferring the necessary crimson cap on the majority of the new church officials. Due to his senior age, 95-year-old Luis Pascual Dri of Argentina, one of the cardinals, chose not to attend […]

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SUICIDE BOMB ATTACK ATTEMPT IN TURKISH CAPITAL ANKARA

  One of the terrorists neutralized by Turkish Police during the attempted terror attack in Ankara. Sun 01 October 2023: Two police officers have been injured in a suicide bombing attack in front of the Interior Ministry in the Turkish capital, Ankara, according to the country’s interior minister. Their wounds are not life-threatening. Ali Yerlikaya […]

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SLOVAKIA’S POPULIST PARTY OPPOSED TO UKRAINE AID GRABS VICTORY

Sun 01 October 2023: Results from Slovakia’s election on Sunday showed that the populist SMER-SSD party, led by former prime minister Robert Fico, had won. Fico is the leader of a populist party that has criticized the EU and NATO and promised to halt providing Ukraine with military assistance. The Smer-SD party scored 23.3%, beating […]

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PRO-RUSSIAN FORMER PRIME MINISTER AND PRO-WESTERN LIBERALS COMPETE FOR VOTES IN SLOVAKIA

Sat 30 September 2023: Slovaks are casting ballots in a closely contested parliamentary election between pro-Western liberals and left-wing former prime minister Robert Fico, who has vowed to stop military assistance to the neighboring Ukraine. Final polls showed the two parties tied, with the winner anticipated to get the first chance to form a government […]

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US CALLS ON SERBIA TO WITHDRAW ‘UNPRECEDENTED’ MILITARY DEPLOYMENT BORDERING KOSOVO

Sat 30 September 2023: Serbia is in the midst of carrying out an “unprecedented” military deployment along its border with Kosovo, the White House said Friday as it called on Belgrade to withdraw its forces. National Security Council spokesperson John Kirby said the U.S. was “monitoring” what he called a “large Serbian military deployment along […]

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